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New York City: Muslim migrant tried to join Islamic State, wanted to stage jihad massacre in Times Square

Feb 17, 2018 1:59 pm By Robert Spencer

Are we diverse enough yet? Remember: stopping, even temporarily, migration from jihadi hotspots is racist, bigoted, and “Islamophobic.”

“Yemeni man pleads guilty in U.S. to trying to join Islamic State,” by Brendan Pierson, Reuters, February 16, 2018:

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Yemen-born New York City resident on Friday pleaded guilty to attempting to provide support to Islamic State, admitting that he tried to join the organization and urged someone else to join too.

Mohamed Rafik Naji entered his plea to one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization at a hearing before U.S. District Judge Frederic Block in Brooklyn. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

“I traveled to Yemen in 2015 to join ISIS and I encouraged another person to join,” Naji said at the hearing, using a common acronym for Islamic State. He said he did not actually join the organization.

Naji said at the hearing that he was born in Yemen, and that he was 38 or 39 years old. Block noted that Naji was a legal permanent resident of the United States, and faced deportation as a result of his guilty plea….

According to a criminal complaint filed around the time of the arrest, Naji flew to Turkey to join Islamic State in Yemen in March 2015, and returned to New York in September 2015, flying from Djibouti….

In August 2015, a paid law enforcement informant began communicating with Naji through Facebook, according to the complaint. After Naji returned to the United States, he had multiple meetings with the informant in which their conversations were recorded, the complaint said.

One conversation occurred on July 19, 2016, five days after an attack in Nice, France that killed 84 people and hurt hundreds more, for which Islamic State claimed responsibility, the complaint said.

In that conversation, Naji expressed his support for staging a similar attack in New York’s Times Square, according to court papers.

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Filed Under: Featured, immigration, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Mohamed Rafik Naji


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  1. Michael Copeland says

    Feb 17, 2018 at 2:48 pm

    “A Yemen-born New York City resident”. How refreshing – a clear factual description.
    Thank you, Brendan Pierson of Reuters.

  2. Cheer Bear Girl says

    Feb 17, 2018 at 5:19 pm

    Islam is nothing like other religions. Islam is a religion of conquest and the Quran is the manual for said conquest. I find the defenders of Islam to be the most woefully ignorant people on the planet.

  3. Ray Jarman says

    Feb 17, 2018 at 6:10 pm

    If he wishes to join ISIS, I would deport him back to Yemen with a GPS implant and give the tracking receiver to the Saudis. He just might lead them to an ISIS camp or may a Houthi camp. Either way, he dies and the Saudis kill some really evil islamists.

  4. Charles T Lawson says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 5:21 am

    TODAYS WORD , ISLAMICTERRORISTOPHOBIC ,

  5. MFritz says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 5:35 am

    Don’t let more of his kind hin, deport those who cause trouble. And if their countries don’t take them back, embargo them.

  6. CRUSADER says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 12:40 pm

    While NYC has its own problems…

    Philadelphia has reported looting, car and traffic light overturning, hotel awning supporting revelers collapsing, etc. Boston’s celebrations have not been as bad….

    Worst video so far has been of this incident:

    In another particularly vile moment of celebration, an Eagles fan could be seen eating horse manure off a street as a crowd of people gathered around him to cheer him on and film the spectacle on their phones.

    At least the city of Philly hasn’t burned down yet….

    Such is Sports!

    ******
    What all this does of course (“a horse a horse a horse”) is demonstrate to jocular jihadis that the USA Americans live in Sodom & Gomorrah and are thus *deserving* of _________

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